Buzz Transcription: Plugins Get a Voice, Not a Veto
A single pull request introduces per-segment review reasons so post-processing plugins can flag transcription segments without altering them, with changes spanning the database schema, transcriber, and viewer UI.
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- Show: Buzz Transcription
- Published: 2026-08-30T13:12:54Z
- Audio duration: PT2M8S
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Good morning. It's August 30th, 2026, and this is Buzz Transcription.
Today's focus is one pull request, but it touches a lot of the system, so it's worth unpacking.
PR 1600, from Dicur3x, adds a list of review reasons to transcription segments, closing out issue 1570. The core idea: plugins that run after transcription could already rewrite segment text, but they had no way to simply flag a segment for human review without destroying the original content. This change gives them…
The implementation reaches across several layers. The review reasons are stored as JSON and persisted through every transcription state — completed, skipped, replaced, and even legacy cached results. That's a sign the team is treating backward compatibility seriously here. Existing databases get migrated with an…
On the interface side, the transcription viewer now highlights affected rows and surfaces every reason in a tooltip. That's a meaningful usability shift — instead of plugins silently rewriting your transcript, they can now leave a visible, non-destructive note explaining what they'd flag and why.
The main thing to remember: this is a schema and data-model change, not just a UI tweak. It touches the…
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